Seems I got to 200 posts without realizing it. Guess I’ve been busy. Like yesterday—busy doing all sorts of things like going to the Farmer’s Market, going across town for coffee beans, getting a haircut, going for a run, going grocery shopping, and then going out to eat (seared duck breast with Israeli couscous, tomato-basil salad, and citrus-tea sauce). All to avoid writing the paper I should be writing. <sigh>
Page views are definitely increasing in frequency. Posting something in my LISNews blog and including a link to my regular blog (this one) had a definite impact. But even before that, some of the conversations that I’ve been participating in have brought a few folks in. Most important, at least in immediate numbers, was getting mentioned by bentley in "This Week in LibraryBlogLand" last week. After a friend, and fellow student, mentioned she found me from there I went ahead and added my blog to both my personal page and to the Bloggers category of our "unofficial GSLIS wiki."
It looks like the Carnival of the Infosciences is on. So get those submissions in to Greg. Seeing as I was one of those who responded to Greg’s initial post I expect to host at some point. I guess that means I best get busy on what I have to do for school so I can write something good for this week’s carnival and be prepared to host in the future.
Recently Read Articles:
Read 28 Jul 05:
Stout, Nancy. "Profession on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown." The Serials Librarian 47 no. 1/2 (2004): 45-55.
Gillmor, Dan. "The Read-Write Web," chapter 2 (pp. 23-43) of We the media: grassroots journalism by the people, for the people. Sebastopol, CA: O’Reilly, 2004. (Not sure where I got this pdf; probably some class e-reserve list.) Interesting overview of many of the new forms of "journalistic" tools. Presents an overview of the change from one-to-many—or more realistically the corporate-to-many individuals—to the so-called read/write Web, and then provides a brief look at mail lists and forums, weblogs, wiki, SMS, mobile-connected cameras, internet "broadcasting," peer-to-peer, RSS, and a summary to help make sense of it all.
Read 30 Jul 05 (at dinner):
Stallman, Richard. "Can you trust your computer?" E-LIS
Civallero, Edgardo. "Primitive peoples, civilized peoples: ideologies underlying documental languages." E-LIS Short, but interesting. Could really use some editing (spelling and grammar), but is quite understandable. If I can ever do this well in a 2nd language….
Wellman, Barry and Bernie Hogan. "The Immanent Internet." (The pdf I have says "Forthcoming in Netting Citizens, edited by Johnston McKay. St. Andrews, Scotland: University of St. Andrews Press, 2004." But neither Open WorldCat, nor Amazon can find it. St. Andrew’s site wasn’t helpful either. Here is the paper (HTML) from a Google search. So the book didn’t get published or it got a different name.)
